Belarus
Russia wins gold in group all-round rhythmic gymastics
Russia has won the gold medal in the group all-round rhythmic gymnastics at the Beijing Olympics.
China won the silver medal and Belarus came third to grab the bronze.
Russia
ALIYCHUK Margarita
GAVRILENKO Anna
GORBUNOVA Tatiana
POSEVINA Elena
SHKURIKHINA Daria
ZUEVA Natalia
China
CAI Tongtong
CHOU Tao
LU Yuanyang
SUI Jianshuang
SUN Dan
ZHANG Shuo
Belarus
BABUSHKINA Olesya
IVANKOVA Anastasia
LUNINA Zinaida
MARTINOVICH Glafira
SANKOVICH Ksenia
TUMILOVICH Alina
Belarus wins gold in men’s K4 1000 meters
Belarus has won the gold medal in the men’s K4 1000 meters. The silver medal went to Slovakia and bronze to Germany.
Belarus
PIATRUSHENKA Raman
ABALMASAU Aliaksei
LITVINCHUK Artur
MAKHNEU Vadzim
Slovakia
RISZDORFER Richard
RISZDORFER Michal
VLCEK Erik
TARR Juraj
Germany
ALTEPOST Lutz
BROCKL Norman
ECKBRETT Torsten
GOLDSCHMIDT Bjorn
Aksana Miankova from Belarus has won the gold medal in the women’s hammer throw at the Beijing Olympics with an Olympic record of 76.34 meters.
Yipsi Moreno of Cuba, threw 75.20m winning the silver and China’s Wenxiu Zhang, threw a season best of 74.32m to win bronze.
Andrei Aramnau from Belarus has won the gold medal in the men’s 105kg category at the Beijing Olympics.
Russia’s Dmitriy Klokov and Dmitry Lapikov finished second and third, respectively.
Primoz Kozmus of Slovenia has won the gold medal in the men’s hammer throw at the Beijing Olympics. It is Slovenia’s first gold medal ever in the track and field.
Vadim Devyatovskiy from Belarus has won the silver medal and Ivan Tsikhan also from Belarus won the bronze.
Valerie Vili from New Zealand has won the women’s shot put at the Beijing Olympics.
Natallia Mikhnevich from Belarus won the silver medal and Nadzeya Ostapchuk also from Belarus, won the bronze medal.
Australia defeats Belarus - women’s basketball
Australia defeated Belarus fairly convincingly in their first game of the Olympic games.
Final score was: 83 - 64.
Next game is: versus New Zealand.
